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Michigan Speech Language Hearing Association

GUIDELINES FOR MSHA'S  
PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM OF THE YEAR

It is the intent of the Public School Committee's (PSC) "Program of the Year Recognition" to accomplish the following:

·   Give visible recognition to outstanding speech, language, and hearing programs in the public schools of Michigan and to those persons responsible for their development and implementation.

·   Promote and share quality professional programs with our colleagues in the schools statewide; and to motivate individuals and departments to enrich their own programs.  In short - a morale booster.

·   Highlight our profession in the media in a highly visible manner for positive public relations with the citizenry of our state, thereby strengthening our public support for improving programs in the public schools.

This project is an annual event wherein recognition is given to one or more programs.  Extensive coverage will be given to the program(s) both internally at the MSHA Conference and in MSHA publications, as well as in the media via newspapers, interviews on radio and television, articles and press releases.

For purposes of participation in this project, program is defined as follows:

any provision of service to the speech, language, and hearing impaired in the schools.  This can include an entire department, a sub-unit of a department, an itinerant program, a clinic, an individual professional's program in one school or in one classroom.  It might be a multi-professional team effort.  It could be a department from a large city district or one individual professional's program from an Upper Peninsula village.  Programs and/or personnel nominated need not be MSHA members.

The procedure for participating is as follows:  nominations may be made by anyone - parent, colleague, administrator.  Nominations must be submitted on the Program of the Year Nomination Form.  Nominations will be reviewed by the PSC subcommittee.  The administrator in charge of the program selected for final consideration will be contacted and briefed regarding the project.  Additional information may be elicited from the finalists and possibly an on-site visit conducted.  

Deadline for nominations:  December 17, 2007

 

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